Peruvian Officials Catch Most-wanted Drug Baron

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November 5, 1996

LIMA — Peruvian authorities said Monday police had caught the country's most-wanted drug trafficker in neighboring Ecuador. In a joint sting by Peru's intelligence service and Ecuadoran police, Willer Alvarado Linares was arrested in Quito early Sunday after he had been tracked from the Colombian capital, Bogota. President Alberto Fujimori described him as the most powerful Peruvian drug lord at large.